A corporation known as Pegasus Global Holdings is building a city -- named CITE -- in the desert outside of Hobbs, NM for the purpose of allowing companies to run prototypes of their new technology. CITE will have no citizens, only scientists and developers who hope to test products in an empty space. As Emily Badger reports (you can read the article…
This article is a MUST READ on where CNU is pushing and heading for the future.
http://bettercities.net/news-opinion/blogs/joe-nickol/18011/new-urbanisms-pivot-point
The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society’s built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge…
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A Friday ritual. A single photo capturing a moment. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
And a small heart-touching forward.. for spreading love.
Installing LOVE..........
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Hello there skeptics of the world,
Today's post is going to be about a few of the reasons why we as humans MUST die, philosophically. Now I don't often blog about strictly philosophical subjects, so please give me some feed back in the comments section below. There are plenty of scientific reasons why every living thing dies (for now), ageing is pretty much inevitable, and eventually, you get to the grand scheme of things, and with the whole 'conservation of energy and mass' and 'total universal entropy' thing, the universe will eventually end up as a huge ball of energy, in which you cannot survive.
Interesting find in the Robinson Map Library today:
This is a map made in November 1945 by the IRIS group (an interim, post-OSS group, but prior to CIA). It shows the actual and proposed boundaries of a fairly troubled region, that between Italy and Yugoslavia, and the Italian population in the immediate post-WWI period. This is an area and a topic I've written about elsewhere, but it is interesting to see the OSS basically taking up a question that preoccupied the American Inquiry and the Paris Peace Conference.
This may very well be the best, most informative and most awe-inspiring 10 minutes of your day.
It leaves me absolutely speechless every time I watch it.
DNA molecule unwinding from a chromosome inside the nucleus of a cell. (Credit: National Human Genome Research Institute)
A new and unexpected role for RNA is identified recently: the defence of genome integrity and stability. A study published in the scientific journal Nature shows that an until now unknown class of RNA — the newly christened DDRNA — plays a key role in activation of the molecular alarms necessary to safeguard our genome when DNA damage from internal or external factors occurs.Given the importance of the cellular DNA damage response in aging, in the repression and control of tumour development, and in therapeutic treatments for cancer, the discovery could open promising avenues.Scientific community has attributed a role to RNA that is subordinate to that of DNA: the functional processes of expression of genetic information into proteins. With some known exceptions, such as the classes of tRNA and rRNA involved in the synthesis of proteins, RNA molecules were considered “fleeting” messengers necessary to carry genetic instructions from the nucleus, site of the genome, to the cytoplasm where proteins, the scaffolding of living organisms, are produced.
DDRNA: a barrier against tumour development
The DNA Damage Response or DDR is the reaction that a cell triggers to maintain its genomic integrity: when a DNA break is detected, the growth and proliferation of damaged cells are temporarily halted, thus avoiding conditions that cause genome rearrangements and mutations that might predispose to cancer or the accumulation of irreparable DNA damage and cause cellular aging.
Therefore, this system constitutes a very effective barrier to the uncontrolled cell growth that is typical of tumours.
read more here
Ben Thomas is a tilt-shift photographer, which constitutes a method that shortens the field of depth. Ben then carefully adjusts colour and the result is a photograph that looks like a miniature model. The City Skrinker Project has been a huge success so far and you can take a look at his work at his website. And here you’ve got my favourites!
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